Etsy vendor Emeli Reiart has made a name for herself creating gorgeous “candy-coated” animal jars. Here, the Canadian shows It’s Not About The Numbers how to achieve the same effect for a cute and quirky geocache container.
Category Archive: Tutorial
New Authors Say The Devil’s In The Detail
First, they were mad; now The Mad Cacher bloggers are down-right devilish … At least according to the title of their new geocaching book.
Joseph ‘EJ’ Martin III and Kurt Milligan, whose company Leeward Coast owns The Mad Cacher blog and last year bought Navicache.com, are in the final stages of publishing a how-to manual entitled 101 Devil Caches: Your Guide to Creating Unique or Hard-To-Find Geocaches.
Tutorial: Design Your Own Geo-Art
There’s a real art to creating a shaped geo-trail – and now, courtesy of America’s Dirtbag Geocaching Society, you can follow this step-by-step video tutorial. What you choose to design is up to you but It’s Not About The Numbers strongly suggests keeping it simple to start with. If you need inspiration, check out this …
Tutorial: Dowsing Rods – A New Tool For Geocachers
Sick of DNFs or your GPSr leading you in circles? Guest author and British treasure cacher David Villanueva suggests trying a pair of dowsing rods to locate those elusive hides. “Just as in hunting for a treasure cache, I can imagine the disappointment when you can’t find that geocache which really ought to be there. Is …
Tutorial: I’ve Been Working On The Railroad …
By Vince Migliore (GC handle: FolsomNatural) There are a number of abandoned or unused railroad lines in my town. Local cachers often use these tracks as hiding places. Here, I’ll show you how to create a simple bison tube hide using a railroad spike. Loose spikes can easy to come by; whether you visit a …
Tutorial: Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble
You may well bubble over with excitement at Larry Butler’s first DIY cache tutorial for It’s Not About The Numbers. Here, the Nevada geocacher (GC handle: Hans415) and owner of Amazon store 4MadHatter’s Books shows how to build the perfect Bubble Cache. NB: If you make your own example, don’t forget to send us a photo of …
Tutorial: A New Geocaching Medium
Bigger is better for Vince Migliore (GC handle: FolsomNatural), whose latest video tutorial shows examples of mid-sized geocaches to make.
The American DIY buff says: “I like the mid-sized version because it allows you to trade travel bugs and provides more room for larger ‘swag’ items.”
It’s Electrifying: DIY Cache Tutorial
DIY cache-maker Vince Migliore explains how to use an emergency radio with a hand-crank generator to electrify a hide – well, three volts worth anyway – in a remote location.
Tutorial: Empowering Your Caches
By Vince Migliore (GC handle: FolsomNatural) Utility boxes, control panels and wiring enclosures are visible everywhere in today’s urban environment. They are inexpensive and widely available at most hardware stores. They also make good hiding places for caches; a passer-by would never guess this is actually a geocaching container. However, neither the plastic nor metal …
Tutorial: One Way To Rock Their Socks Off
Geo-blogger EyeD10T Jones found himself between a rock and a hard place – not once, but twice – while creating this cache tutorial for It’s Not About The Numbers. “Winter was pretty brutal here in the American state of New Hampshire, so I spent a lot of time indoors working on creative cache containers – including …
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